A Learjet 60 bound for the Bahamas crashed Sunday into a residential neighborhood near Palm Beach, killing all nine people aboard. Lenny Kravitz' team told TMZ that reports the rocker was on board are "untrue and incorrect."
Nine people died and the internet's first move was to kill a 62 year old rocker who was not on the plane. The evidence: an old photo of a pilot who had once flown the singer on a similar route. That is about the evidentiary standard of a 2007 forum, and the forum did its thing.
Then the machine did what machines do. A spokesperson. A statement. "Untrue and incorrect." NY Post has the singer's private pilot denying it too, which is about the most thorough way to be alive there is. The pilot who got misidentified posted a video of her own asking people to "be respectful of those involved," and the eulogy kept running anyway. A death hoax is the only kind of death that ignores a statement.
The real crime scene is the comments section. Nine funerals, one old selfie, and the internet's top work of the week is proving a guy named Lenny is a ghost, while his PR people show up to a scene that does not exist and say he is alive.
YOUR TURN: What is the evidentiary standard for a celebrity death now? One photo? Two? Does a team statement disqualify a body that was never there?
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